The annual 15 day May Fair used to be held at the Haymarket but in 1686 it moved to the site of Curzon Street and Shepherd Market. About 100 years later it was suppressed by the local residents, mainly nobility, who objected to it.
Large sections of this and the surrounding area, now known as Mayfair, has been owned by the Grosvenor family since 1677.
Set up to install a network of water mains that would deliver hydraulic power through the use of water under high pressure, water from the Thames. Â The network extended from Hyde Park to Docklands ...
Horatio Myer (7 June 1850 - 1 January 1916) was born Hereford, the son of a German Jewish immigrant.  He moved to London and in 1876 in Vauxhall he set up business producing metal beds and later pr...
Was on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Torrington Place. Designed by Fitzroy Doll.
Tobacco retailer which become the largest tobacco sellers in the UK, with over 140 retail outlets. Samuel Gluckstein (1821-73) was born in Rheinberg, Prussia (now Germany) on 4 January 1821, the s...
Stanley served in the RAF during WW2. Â The Burtons were philanthropic and in Leeds there is a gallery and a theatre named "Stanley & Audrey Burton" so we think he may have married an Audrey. Â W...
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